Yet you can injure people with culture. Constantly stoking emotions like fear and its siblings hatred, loathing, and obedience, eventually stimulates the amygdala into an enlarged state.

The problem is not just ideology, it’s biology. Cults are freaky, man. There’s the psychology of inducing trances and there’s even probably some weird acausal shit that we don’t understand and would label magic.

But our persistence as a species relies on us figuring it out.

Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.

This is what false flag operations are for.

Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.

One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.

Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!

I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

I guess the solution is for people with conservative values to stop associating so freely with subjugation addicts? Once conservative identity is dissociated from a wide spectrum of racist and classist bullshit, not to mention that we are entering an extinction level event of our own doing, then maybe the guilt by association will go away.

Opinions are often based on premises or observations or claimed facts, which are sometimes very objectively wrong.

I get what you’re complaining about but the ‘sanctity of opinion’ isn’t a strong argument.

And yet, nobody who trumpets this as an issue really thinks hard about it as a philosophy. They just say stupid things like I am an absolutist, all speech should be free.

Then they turn around and complain about being defrauded lol.

My line for computational adequacy was crossed with the Core2Duo. Any chip since has been fine for everyday administration or household use, and they are still fine running linux.

Any Apple silicon including the M1 is now adequate even for high end production, setting a new low bar, and a new watershed.

The cartoon is a critique of capitalism, not automation. Maybe most voters or readers are missing that.

Anton Petrov is a solid science commentator. He mostly just reports and doesn’t do much conjecture unless he’s reporting on public discourse about the issue. He doesn’t rely on charisma, slick production, or sensationalism, even if he has ti play the algorithm game. Examine his extensive channel on youtube.

This week’s rental for me:

• hammer chisel, 24h, about $70 canadian.
• E20 excavator, 8h runtime but over the weekend, around $500 with delivery and fuel

Not going to buy those things or pay someone to operate them. It’s a good deal.